Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country where thought is so rare, where it is so delightful when apparent, not even a Cambridge school commissioner should place too little value upon it. He wants his sons to grow up free from ideas on the nature of things; he should fear lest they grow up with none...
Occasionally some incident brings to the "average citizen" a tremor of fear as he considers for a moment that one of those sacred rights which have in his conversation convinced him that he has reason to be proud of himself and of his country is completely a thing of the past. Such an incident is that of the executive order recently issued by President Coolidge and even more recently backed by Mr. Sargent. Here he has proof positive that one more established prerogative of his particular little self has departed. For the iron hand of authority in his "free country...
...right to manage or that liability or obligation for results." It is here that many part from his opinion. Mr. Gary assumes that employees have no pecuniary interest in the business in which they are employed, because they have no invested interest. But others maintain that wages and fear of unemployment constitute an interest seen enough to allow workmen voice in management. The obstacles to schemes of Industrial democracy are many. But the blanket condemnation Mr. Gary offers rings as hollow as the Quixotic demands of socialists...
...erect before him, in no pride of authority, but with unquestioning faith in the scientific tools they have pain-fully learned to use for the progressive revelation of that world to its maker-to-be, and with unquenchable enthusiasm for the value of that revelation, the college need not fear. Its future is secure." This may be too much akin to sentiment, to the inspirational to satisfy the modern undergraduate--it may, and probably is, as has been suggested but one face of a multi-sided jewel-- but, fortunately or unfortunately, it is absolutely true...
Last week the Senate Committee on Commerce was wrangling talmudically over whether the deposit completed the sale. If not, certain Northwest interests, which fear the Dollars will deflect shipping away from the Columbia River and Puget Sound territory, may still have opportunity to bid on the boats. At any rate, a good proportion of boats on the Pacific will fly the U. S. flag...